Apology

Since its inception, TheLiberal.ie has believed in giving young writers the opportunity to produce articles which they felt were newsworthy and socially important, we will continue to do this.

However, some of these writers were very young and unaware of the mechanics of the news industry and this resulted on occasion in stories and images being used without the permission of the entities who owned them. This was not done in a malicious fashion and the terrible emotional hurt which appears to have been caused to a large global media organisation is particularly striking.

Information pertaining to decisions taken in Irish courts is something TheLiberal.ie feels should not be owned by anyone. However, as that appears to be the system that currently exists in Ireland, we have decided to shortly launch a new subsidiary specialising in court reporting. It is our intention that this service will be significantly cheaper than any offering currently available, in fact we hope to make it as close to free as possible.